PQDT Advanced Search Field Tags

Searches the complete abstract of the dissertation or thesis.

Note: Non-Roman characters are not searched in the Abstract Field

Example

AB=childhood AND education

Searches for the name of the author of the dissertation ore thesis.

Search using last name, first name.

Search using truncation on names for complete recall.

Note: Non-Roman characters are not searched in the Author Field

Example:

AU=Rivalle, G*

Searches for the name of the identified adviser for the dissertation or thesis.

Search using last name, first name

Note: Non-Roman characters are not searched in the Adviser field

Example:

AV=Smith, David

Searches the complete address for the dissertation or thesis,.

In many cases this will be the same as the institution that granted the degree but may include department information and country/region information.

Example: 

AD=Northwestern University

AD="Department of Chemistry"

Searches for any assigned dissertation or thesis subject categories

Most dissertations and theses are assigned at least one subject category when indexed.

Example

CLF=Information Technology

Searches for the name of any committee member indexed for the dissertation or thesis.

Search using last name, first name

Search using truncation on names for complete recall

Note: Non-Roman characters are not searched in the Committee Member field

Example:

COMM=(Riedewald, Mirek OR Bedrick, Steven)

Searches the country or region from the Address field

Example:

CU=Spain

Searches the Degree Type for each dissertation or thesis

Each document is identified as either a Doctoral or Masters degree type

Example:

DG=Doctoral

Searches the DOI field for each dissertation or thesis

Note: Not all documents are assigned a DOI

Example:

DO=10.48773/9w319

Searches the department field for each dissertation or thesis

Example:

DPT=("computer science" or "electrical engineering")

Searches the ISBN field for each dissertation or thesis

Note: Not all documents are assigned an ISBN

Example:

ISBN=979-8-204-10299-6

Searches the language field for each dissertation or thesis

This field denotes the original language of the dissertation or thesis.

Example:

LA=Portuguese

Searches the indexed institution for the dissertation or thesis

This field will typically be the institution that granted the degree associated with the dissertation or thesis.

Example:

OO=Northwestern University

Searches the publication year for the dissertation or thesis

The publication year is typically the same as the degree year for published dissertation or thesis.

Separating years with a hyphen will searh a year range.

Example:

PY=1985

PY=1990-2000

Searches for terms in title field for each dissertation or thesis.

Note: Non-Roman character sets are not currently supported for searching the Title field.

Example:

TI=(Hemingway and film)

Searches for terms in the following fields of each dissertation or thesis: Title, Abstracts, Keywords

Note: Non-Roman characters are not searched in Topic fields.

Example:

TS=("teaching learning process" and games)